Bialiatski, who was arrested in 2021, and three co-defendants were charged with financing protests and smuggling money. He denied the charges against him, calling them politically motivated.
LONDON, United Kingdom – Nobel Peace Prize winner and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday, March 3, by a court in his native Belarus which found him guilty of financing protests in a ruling condemned by Germany as a “farce”.
Bialiatski, who was arrested in 2021, and three co-defendants were charged with financing protests and smuggling money. Belarusian state news agency Belta confirmed the court had handed down long jail sentences to all the men, including a decade in prison for Bialiatski. He denied the charges against him, calling them politically motivated.
That, she said, placed human rights defenders at risk of criminal prosecution for their legitimate activities.
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